Corporate America Can't Build Sentences

I read an article, "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence" that criticized the writing skills of the successful buisness men and women of America. Not only does the article criticize the unclear, informal messages of buisness people, but also of students. Students contact their teachers in the same informal manner as they do with their friends. This is a problem I have heard from many professors at SMU when I came to orientation. The teachers expressed to the incoming students the importance of writing formally to a teacher even in an email. Using shortened versions of words, not addressing the professor at the beginning of the email, etc. Students need to learn when to seperate their school life with their social life when contacting professors.

College

I commented on Powerades blog, "Is college a crucial part of success?" I think that it is not a requirement for someone to go to college. As cec stated on her coment, some people need to take some time off to figure out what they want to do. The only dissapointment to me if someone does that is they would miss out on the experience of college. As a freshman with everyone my age, I have met so many great people and would not have chosen do anything else for the next four years. People who go to school later, do not get the same experience. Although, if you are going to go to school and not accomphish anything, there is no point. In the long run, college is not crucial, as long as you are doing something with your life that you love, you are good to go.

Paper Outline

The Claim in my outline is that people need to approach the things they do by engaging their minds and being more satisfied instead of spending the majority of their time on passive leisure activities. My first reason is that people should do more activities that they get flow. By doing so, they will be happier. While it may take longer for them to get up and start the activity, in the long run they will benefit from it more. As Csikszentimalyi states, “the typical teenager admits that biking, or playing basketball, or playing the piano are more enjoyable than roaming through the mall or watching TV. But, they say to get organized for a basketball game takes time” (Csikzzentimalyi 67). The reason many people do not start doing physical activities is because they are too lazy. Although, they will get more enjoyment out of it. My second reason is that people are wasting their life away doing activities doing activities with no benefits, such as watching TV or playing on the computer. My third reason is that people do not know how to spend their leisure time. As Csikszentimihalyi stated, "free time is more difficult to enhoy than work. Having leisure at one's disposal does not improve the quality of life unless one know how to use it effectively, and it is by no means something one learns automatically.